From the no-way-out dept., Out-Law.com reports:
Businesses relying on European Commission-approved model contract clauses to transfer personal data from the EU to the US should terminate or suspend those arrangements, a German data protection watchdog has said.
The Independent Centre for Privacy Protection in the state of Schleswig-Holstein said (5-page / 56KB PDF) it was its view that EU-US data transfers facilitated by the use of model clauses fail to comply with EU law.
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